Alvesson, Mats creator author. Sandberg, Jorgen author. text uk London SAGE Publications Ltd c2024 2024 Second edition. monographic eng ix, 147 pages ; 24 cm. "All researchers want to produce interesting and influential theories. A key step in all theory development is formulating innovative research questions that will result in interesting and significant research. Traditional textbooks on research methods tend to ignore, or gloss over, actual ways of constructing research questions. In this text, Alvesson and Sandberg develop a problematization methodology for identifying and challenging the assumptions underlying existing theories and for generating research questions that can lead to more interesting and influential theories, using examples from across the social sciences. Established methods of generating research questions in the social sciences tend to focus on 'gap-spotting', which means that existing literature remains largely unchallenged. The authors show the dangers of conventional approaches, providing detailed ideas for how one can work through such problems and formulate novel research questions that challenge existing theories and produce more imaginative empirical studies. Constructing Research Questions is essential reading for any researcher looking to formulate research questions that are interesting and novel." --Provided by the publisher Contents: 1 Research questions: a core ingredient in developing interesting theories -- 2 The context of constructing and formulating research questions -- 3 Gap-spotting: the prevalent way of contructing research questions in social scuence -- 4 A critical evaluation of gap-spotting research: does it lead to interesting theories? -- 5 Problematization methodology -- 6 Applying the problematization methodology -- 7 Why does gap-spotting dominate when it reduces the chance to create interesting theories? -- 8 Constructing interesting research questions: problematization and beyond. Adult adult Mats Alvesson and Jorgen Sandberg. Includes bibliographical references and index. Purchased Lauron, Rodello General Education Education : English Text in English Social sciences Research Design Questionnaires Design 9781529629132 [paperback] University of Cebu-Banilad 250911 20250911092416.0